Example sentences of "and if it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | She would need such care and gentleness , and if it killed him he would give it to her , but the passion was raging in him until he could hardly see straight . |
2 | You put a bit of pressure on its mandible , or lower beak , and if it broke it was a young bird . |
3 | That was true , and if it suggested they had been alerted by the security pass and not by a friend in the underpaid BBC World Service , then so much the better . |
4 | We played whenever we got the chance in the evenings and if it did nothing else it kept us out of the bar . |
5 | Walter Gifford Nash , honorary surgeon at the County Hospital , had expressed support for co-operation with the local authority , but added a rider to the effect that if the voluntary hospital were enlarged and improved , and if it increased its work , ‘ County Council would have very little to do ’ . |
6 | The rest of his property he left to his girl Agnes and to their child , if it were born alive , and if it showed itself to be of a good , kind character . |